Tony Madden, Senior Vice President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Andrew Baker, Director, Avnet Alliance Asia Pacific, IBM and Darryl Tucker, Business Unit Executive, Avnet Technology Solutions shared about Avnet-IBM roadmap for 2015 in the Avnet-IBM Asia Pacific Kick-Off Meeting in Singapore.
With more than 25 years of partnership spanning 30 countries globally, Avnet has reached USD 3 billion in annual sales of IBM technology solutions and services, generating greater than 20 percent growth year-over-year in IBM sales.
From a global supplier relationship perspective, Tony Madden shared that Avnet and IBM sit together on a very strategic basis plotting mutual growth strategies to grow IBM sales from USD 3 billion in FY2010 to USD 5 billion by 2015. He shared that Avnet and IBM have put in place initiatives such as OEM agreement, integration and manufacturing for IBM and Avnet towards achieving mutual profitable growth.
Andrew Baker said, "That they will continue to strive to improve the experience for the partners by making it easier to do business with IBM through Avnet and to drive three big plays for IBM in 2012 which he identified as software, services and storage."
